Please let us know if you have any questions about the summer homework letter.
Third Grade Summer Reading
Summer is the perfect time for students to explore their interests and build their language and vocabulary skills through reading. We have provided you with a reading list of award winning titles and a reading log, with the expectation that your child will continue to read for at least twenty minutes each day.
Third Grade Summer Math Assignments
FAQ
How should my child pace himself/herself?
Third Grade Summer Writing Practice
In addition to reading and math, summer provides an excellent opportunity to keep writing skills sharp in preparation of fourth grade. Please refer to the Tips for Summer Writing sheet in your child’s summer packet for different writing experiences and prompts. As always, be sure your child is practicing their best cursive and using third grade double-lined paper, or their Handwriting Without Tears purple writing notebook.
Handwriting Practice
Please complete any blank pages in the red Handwriting Without Tears third grade workbook. Before handwriting practice, please remember all handwriting skills as outlined in the red handwriting notebook inside the HWT workbook. There are other handwriting resources attached to the summer packet.
Spelling
Please have your child complete any incomplete units in his orange third grade spelling workbook. Your review and correction of these units would be beneficial. In addition, please have your child practice spelling Frye’s first 300 (list attached). When writing letters, journals, stories etc., your child is required to spell the Frye first 300 correctly, as well as all words from the orange third grade spelling workbook.
Third Grade Summer Reading
Summer is the perfect time for students to explore their interests and build their language and vocabulary skills through reading. We have provided you with a reading list of award winning titles and a reading log, with the expectation that your child will continue to read for at least twenty minutes each day.
Third Grade Summer Math Assignments
- Your child is required to complete Singapore Math Practice Book 3A.
- Math practice books will be collected in the first week of school.
- If you wish to further develop your child’s mathematics, we recommend purchasing Book 3B.
- Daily review of all division and multiplication fact families up to 12X, especially those “demons”
- Required weekly plotting of your child’s fact per minute fluency rate on his/her Rocket Math graph
- Rocket Math graph will be collected in the first week of school.
- If you are looking for a further challenge, we recommend purchasing Singapore Word Problems or Challenging Word Problems.
FAQ
How should my child pace himself/herself?
- Do 1 unit per week.
- Do a minimum of 25 minutes per day.
- If your child does 1 unit per week, he will have 8 weeks of work
Third Grade Summer Writing Practice
In addition to reading and math, summer provides an excellent opportunity to keep writing skills sharp in preparation of fourth grade. Please refer to the Tips for Summer Writing sheet in your child’s summer packet for different writing experiences and prompts. As always, be sure your child is practicing their best cursive and using third grade double-lined paper, or their Handwriting Without Tears purple writing notebook.
Handwriting Practice
Please complete any blank pages in the red Handwriting Without Tears third grade workbook. Before handwriting practice, please remember all handwriting skills as outlined in the red handwriting notebook inside the HWT workbook. There are other handwriting resources attached to the summer packet.
Spelling
Please have your child complete any incomplete units in his orange third grade spelling workbook. Your review and correction of these units would be beneficial. In addition, please have your child practice spelling Frye’s first 300 (list attached). When writing letters, journals, stories etc., your child is required to spell the Frye first 300 correctly, as well as all words from the orange third grade spelling workbook.